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...international mix. Fluent in English, French and German, but not Russian - "I speak very bad Russian, but without an accent, and the Russians consider that a provocation" - he maintains a close relationship with the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. "He saw the collapse of East Germany as a tidal wave that could only be stopped by war, which he did not want," Ustinov says. "He believed democratic reform was possible within the framework of the Soviet system, which of course it wasn't." Of the current Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, Ustinov opines that "he is still young enough to learn...
...DiCAPRIO: What I really loved was the tidal wave: the bounce between history and the characters. You realize that, eventually, the tidal wave of time and the transformation of the country will overwhelm these people until they almost become fossils...
Despite Mathis-Lilley’s earlier assurances that Arts’ scores would “be like a drop in the ocean, an angry FM ocean that forms into a giant tidal wave of words crushing the Arts section like the tidal wave crushed New York City in the 1998 movie Deep Impact,” he was wrong. So very wrong...
...last year and Alan Gray, whisky analyst for ING Financial Markets, is predicting volume growth of only 1.8% per annum over the next five years as the industry grapples with volatile economies and stiff competition from other spirits. Although recurrent predictions that Scotch would be washed away by a tidal wave of vodka and other trendy tipples have clearly proved premature, the threat remains. Can whisky fight back? It seems to be limbering up. Last year's partition of the Seagram drinks empire by Britain's Diageo and Pernod Ricard of France means that the big three - Diageo and Pernod...
...Let’s be creative and original rather than jaded and boring,” he declares, sans irony once again. And so we have Perry Farrell, Nelly Furtado and a bevy of divas singing about having a good time, holding hands and dancing happily. Yet subsumed in tidal waves of studio effects, their voices ride the uncomfortable line between being reduced to cogs in the machine and struggling to stay afloat. Tricky, whose unearthly growl once spoke volumes, sounds here like an incomprehensible animal. Only the weathered grain of Ice Cube’s voice manages to triumph...